WTO rejects EU beef hormone ban but also raps US, Canada - (EU Business)
March 31, 2008 – 8:39 pmhttp://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1206980222.5
The World Trade Organisation on Monday ruled that the European Union, United States and Canada all failed to respect global trade rules in a long-running row over beef treated with growth hormones.
The EU was at fault because its present justifications for an import ban — which were revised after a previous WTO ruling — were not backed up by scientific evidence, the WTO said.
The US and Canada meanwhile did not follow WTO procedures strictly by maintaining retaliatory measures against Brussels, the global trade body found in a report.
The case goes back nearly 10 years to 1998 when the WTO ruled Washington and Ottawa could slap higher tariffs on a list of EU products after it condemned Brussels for banning beef producing with certain growth-promoting hormones — used by the US and Canada — without a scientific assessment of the risk.
The EU had contested these sanctions, saying that they were no […]
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